I was unpacking a box of old things the other day, and came across a vintage book of fairytales that I distinctly remember buying with my own pocket money when I was a child. I think it was from a secondhand book shop, and I bought it pretty much exclusively for the illustrations. The book is called 'Golden Book of Fairytales', published by Collins, 1966. On the front page there is a small squashed spider and the inscription 'To Andrea with love from Auntie Violet, Uncle Bert, Sharon and Janice.'
When I showed Keira the book, she was really into the illustrations and we discovered that many of the fairytales are about a brother and sister setting off in the woods for an adventure. (She liked the idea of that very much.) I liked all the woodlandy themes and illustrations of deer, mushrooms, vines and roses. And those are the things that I based my etsy shop update on this week- vines embroidered onto a linen bag, wild rose printed cards, a rabbit-embroidered needlebook, and a silverbirch forest pin.
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